Root password disappears at every login, was "Cannot login as root"

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 21:00 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> M. Fioretti wrote:
> 
> 
> > The reasons for that are not worth discussing here, but this is why I am
> > ignoring SELinux **for the moment**. Again, suggestions are welcome, but I
> > will have to apply them _after_ I have finished those other things. At
> > that point, I'll either fix SELinux or just reinstall from scratch...
> 
> Surely SELINUX=permissive should be the same in practice
> as SELINUX=disabled?
> Wouldn't it be a bug if they weren't the same?

Except that in permissive mode you get the SE daemon complaining all the
time. Other than that, they should be the same for practical purposes.

poc